February 2022
Beginner
768 pages
21h 8m
English
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Search Engine Optimization All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition
by Bruce Clay, Kristopher B. Jones
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Chapter 4
Vetting Inbound Links
IN THIS CHAPTER
Identifying inbound links
Avoiding poor-quality links
Dealing with link spam issues
Cleaning up spammy inbound links
In Chapter 3 of this minibook, we discuss how inbound links can help and hurt your website, and how to tell good links from bad ones. Inbound links are the links pointing to your site. If you are Bob’s Classic Car Customization, and you get a link from Motormouth Mabel’s Classic Car Boutique, that’s an inbound link. In addition to rankings by content, part of how search engines rank pages is based on inbound links. Google’s description of its PageRank system (a part of Google’s link algorithm), for instance, notes that Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote of confidence by page A, for page B. That means that it reads an inbound link from another page as a testimonial link in your page, as if it means, “Hey, this guy knows what he’s talking about!” Unfortunately, as is true of a lot of things in life, there are good inbound links and bad inbound links.
Chapter 3, looks at how to attract good links; ...
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